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Bill tracking: More than a dozen proposed new water laws are racing to the end of the legislative process in Sacramento

August 27, 2024

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

The majority of bills churning through this legislative session have to pass both the Assembly and Senate by midnight Saturday, August 31, or they die. And there are a slew of water bills racing toward that deadline. While some may make it to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk, no one can say if he will sign…

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One Tulare County groundwater agency charges full tilt into recharge

August 13, 2024

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

Farmers and water managers in the Kaweah subbasin are charging headlong into recharge as a key strategy to both keep the state’s hands off its pumping and position growers to better withstand drought years. Fifteen recharge projects have been completed, are in progress or are in the design phase in the East Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability…

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Friant Water Authority pins projected canal project shortfall on four ag water districts, wants them to pony up

August 12, 2024

• by Lois Henry

Even as work on the first phase of fixing the sinking Friant-Kern Canal is nearly done, officials are worried they won’t be able to pay the bill and have come up with a plan that puts pressure on four agricultural water districts to pony up. The Friant Water Authority owes the federal Bureau of Reclamation…

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“Groundhog day meets purgatory.” The tale of the sinking Tule subbasin

July 26, 2024

• by Lois Henry

When you’re done, you’re done. And the Delano-Earlimart Irrigation District Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) is done. The district recently issued its new groundwater plan — purposely without coordination among the other groundwater agencies in the Tule subbasin. In the San Joaquin Valley water world, that’s the equivalent of going rogue. Especially as the Tule subbasin…

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Authors advocate generational thinking to manage water in the southern San Joaquin Valley

July 11, 2024

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

Two college buddies who spent a day fly fishing on the Sacramento River came home with more than fish tales. For retired city planners Greg Collins and James Holloway, it prompted a new book, “Seven Generations: The Past, Present and Future of the Tulare Lake Basin,” published in May. This might beg the question, what…

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Protecting domestic wells a key piece of southern Fresno County groundwater agency’s planning

July 8, 2024

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

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Springville residents irate over continued water outages, company blames residents

July 2, 2024

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

More than a year after floods caused water outages in the small town of Springville in the Tulare County foothills, residents are still struggling with water loss and contamination. Residents are furious with Del Oro Water Company, the private, for-profit company that serves the town, and blame it for the ongoing problems. But staff at…

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Kaweah’s new groundwater plan may be enough to negate state action, if they can see eye-to-eye on subsidence

July 1, 2024

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

The state came to Tulare County and gave water managers in the Kaweah subbasin kudos for being proactive on their new plan to stop over pumping in the region. The head of the state Water Resources Control Board Joaquin Esquivel himself was there to praise the managers. “We are heartened by the coordination we see…

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Okieville water recharge project a “poster child” of partnership to protect residential water

June 27, 2024

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

More than 40 engineers, landowners, water officials and drinking water advocates gathered along the banks of a full, flowing canal in Tulare County Thursday to inaugurate the Okieville Recharge Basin. But the first order of business on the hot summer day was snow cones. The 21-acre project is a “poster child” of partnership that will…

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Domestic well program gets mini launch in Tule subbasin as water managers worry about one agency’s ability to pay its share long term

June 21, 2024

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

Board members of Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainablity Agency signed a deal with Self-Help Enterprises this week to respond to dry or damaged drinking water wells. The deal may, or may not, be extended throughout the Tule subbasin as part of a larger effort by managers to revamp their groundwater plan and submit it to the…

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Bill tracking: More than a dozen proposed new water laws are racing to the end of the legislative process in Sacramento

One Tulare County groundwater agency charges full tilt into recharge

Friant Water Authority pins projected canal project shortfall on four ag water districts, wants them to pony up

“Groundhog day meets purgatory.” The tale of the sinking Tule subbasin

Authors advocate generational thinking to manage water in the southern San Joaquin Valley

Protecting domestic wells a key piece of southern Fresno County groundwater agency’s planning

Springville residents irate over continued water outages, company blames residents

Kaweah’s new groundwater plan may be enough to negate state action, if they can see eye-to-eye on subsidence

Okieville water recharge project a “poster child” of partnership to protect residential water

Domestic well program gets mini launch in Tule subbasin as water managers worry about one agency’s ability to pay its share long term

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